Google Chrome, Oops! Did that hurt?

Got back from my friends apartment after watching ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, my twitter stream is overflowing with tweets about Chrome – the browser unleashed by Google a couple of hours ago.
It’s got the oomph factor and the browser is cool (I’m running it on Win XP using Parallels) too.

Download chrome

If you’re looking out for the feature list, you might just go read it here.  I’ll try and list some of the things which didn’t work as expected(at least for me).

Corp URL?

I hit the known product issues URL just to check for any document issues. Bling bling, two redirects and boy there you go, I hit some google corp url.
DNS Error

Collect statistics

Collect statistics option is turned on by default, you might just wanna turn this option off for security reasons.
Usage statistics

JavaScript console

The JavaScript console looks neat, but only to know that it doesn’t work as I thought it would. It worked only for the first time I launched chrome.</oops!>

Google gears

Chrome has built in support for gears.
Gears

Shortcuts

Enter about:memory in the address bar to see memory used by chrome and other open browsers (if any).
about: will give built information about chrome.

There is a javascript debugger, javascript console and a task manager in the developer section.
With all said, I must say ‘It’s Nice’.

Oh! and this whole new theme change and thingy happened last evening.

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  • http://www.kogmedia.com media kingdom

    should be interesting to see if Chrome works more efficiently than FireFox and IE… if it’s faster than Firefox, since isn’t IE, then i’ll use it

  • Praveen

    As of now yes, chrome is the fastest browser available. But wait, Firefox 3.1(using TraceMonkey) will be faster than chome(which uses v8).

    As reported by mozilla – http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/09/tracemonkey_update.html

  • Jignesh

    people always love to use competitor’s product. Now onwards, yahoos will test their apps on Chrome also. :D

  • Praveen

    @jignesh I really don’t care who has created the browser, what really matters is, will it improve the browsing experience for the end user. One thing for sure, we have a new player fighting for browser share now.
    Test .. huh, nothing gets tested which is not listed in the GBS chart